Anime 34280 Gamers Reviews Filter Check 3

First review, but I felt like some of this needed to be said and I felt I've seen enough.
This does contain some spoilers, I suppose.

Gamers has a cool premise: modern gaming, where there's a school club for it and the leader is a popular and pretty blonde girl who tries to find other gamers and recruit them - but the main lead says no to joining!

The first few episodes seemed pretty decent and I was enjoying the show. After a few episodes, things got really frustrating. The show steered away from video games and gaming culture for the most part and turned into an ... extremely petty and frustrating love drama between the characters. They are all suspicious of each other liking someone else and instead of, y'know, just talking to each other and actually communicating, they have obscured POVs and do petty things to find out if their hunch is right, and, without actual proof, they draw conclusions over the dumbest and simplest things. I thought it would all stick to one, maybe two episodes, but it went on longer than it should have and is still going.

I tried to give it a chance after a couple of bad episodes. I was really excited to watch it and thought it was really cute and enjoyable at first, but the plot just went completely downhill the last few episodes that it became unwatchable. I am only being this hard on it since it's a 12 episode anime. That's short, and if you have several bad episodes within that.. that really takes the quality down several notches.
Instead of the characters developing, it's as if it's the characters just became worse - and not in an interesting way either. They went from pretty cool, smart characters to all of them just making piss poor decisions and failing so hard at communicating that it was cringe-worthy.

I understand that every plot has at least one conflict, but the kind of conflict they went with is very poor, annoying, and unfitting for what the show could/should have been about. There's so much they could have done with this show but instead of sticking to the show's actual theme, they chose to plop in a bunch of negative, unnecessary love drama.. with the odd video game reference here and there to remind you of the title, I guess.

It'd be nice if the plot picked up again and became more about gaming again, but I couldn't stand to stick around. I understand one of the themes of this anime is romance as well, which is fine, but the fact that they made all the characters so painfully stupid and oblivious is extremely unrealistic - even for naive highschoolers.


Other than my disappointment for the plot (so far) and character development (or lack there-of/character decline), the music is decent. The opening is adorable, and the animation itself is decent.


If the show does improve, I'll be happy, but its annoying fall-off in the middle (so far, anyway) is too frustrating to endure for me and seems to steer away from the original premise of what was making the show so charming.

Gamers! is a bog-standard, uninspired romance-comedy anime that tries nothing new and fails at every stride it takes, not to mention its offensively bad representation of the gaming community.

Story: 2
Have you watched a rom-com anime before? If you answered yes, then there is no need for you to watch this show. It's your generic story of a loser, socially awkward MC that gets attention from the hottest girls in his school for no apparent reason. The relationship webs between characters are poorly done and only arise because the characters are too stupid to make logical decisions when it comes to their relationships. Ultimately, it fails ... in making the connection between these realistic, therefore defeating one of the main purposes of a rom-com.... the romance.

Oh and about the comedy, it's awful. The only time I laughed while watching this show was at myself after a joke I made about one of the characters playing a what was essentially CS:GO. The comedic timing is way off and characters have no gimmicks to play off of one another.

Art: 3
Think anime. Think anime protagonist. Now you know what our main character looks like. Character designs are bland, boring and just plain bad. However the animation itself is good and the intro has great animation featuring the main characters as if they were inside various types of games.

Sound: 5
Nothing special, background music fits the tone of situations well and the intro and ending are decent. Nothing much more to say.

Characters: 1
This is where the show is most insulting. Not only are the characters generic, underdeveloped, having no rhyme or reason as to why they like the other characters, but the misrepresentation of gamers is what really ruins the charters. You will not find a single gamer in this world that is anything like most of the main cast. They are gamers for the sake of the plot and are given no reason as to why they started playing video games in the first place, which could have given a nice conflict in ideologies which the show tried to do... yet failed.

Enjoyment: 2
There's not much to like at all about this show, if you have seen one rom-com anime, you've seen Gamers!. Do not bother watching, I've done the dirty work for you in order to write this review.

Overall: 2
---DO NOT WATCH---
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

"Missunderstandings" everywhere. You could basically sum up the whole show with these two words. To cut to the chase, the characters are really bad and 1-dimensional. This was one of many griping issues that was bugging me while watching this show; the characters are all dumb/intentionally idiotic (and I don’t mean this lightly), and the cast consists of your run-of-the-mill cliche character tropes you’ll find in any romcom anime. You’ll have your "wimpy loser MC” who is voiced by your average female shounen VA, the "prettiest girl in class that has a crush on the wimpy MC” cause for SOME REASON wimps are chick magnets, ... the "annoying girl with the annoying voice" (you’ll know which one), the "dude that is really popular but likes to hangout with loser MC", and the list goes on.

To add on top of the lame cast, the show never seems to go anywhere. The only thing that seems to be driving the plot forward would be the “misunderstandings” that would occur between two of the characters. This misunderstand could be anything: Character A was caught being close to Character B, Character B shares a drink with Character C and Character A sees this and is surprised that B and C are close (even though in reality it was mutual and not in a way of showing lovely emotions towards each other), Character C thinks Character A hate them thus undergoes depression, THE LOST GOES ON AND IT’S ANNOYING! The whole foundation of the plot in Gamers are the misunderstandings that happen in the show, it’s the only thing moving the plot. Forget good writing, forget good drama, forget good comedy, they were basically grabbing shit outta there asses and hoping anything could help move the plot forward. What a joke.

Rant out of the way, I'd like to say a few things: I don't have a clue as to why I stuck with this show for 5 tremendously bad episodes and I guess I was really hoping I'd actually get something good outta this show. Instead of romance and comedy, I got stale jokes and bad writing. Basically unoriginal cliche romcom horse arse. To be honest, the thing that drove me to stop watching this show the most was the characters. The characters were so bad it got unbearable; I was at a point in the show that I didn’t care about the plot anymore and was just focusing on how utterly terrible the characters were. It was just so...BAD! Words can’t describe how miserable each episode was, watching as the characters go on their daily lives of looping through the same problems over and over again and never learning. The characters have peas for brains! As for the art, it was mediocre AT BEST but wasn't too bad. I’d expect better quality though, the colors and designs of the setting and characters were bland and boring to look at. The Sound wasn't too bad either but not noticably great, though I did kinda enjoy the OP. The OP was catchy and I enjoyed the references to other games (such as PUBG, Super Smash Bros, and Undertale). Besides all of that though, this show could be summed up as a terrible mess or the crap I take after eating the local Chipotle burrito. I don't recommend this show to anyone who wants REAL romance with an ACTUAL plot, but if you like romcom cliches then go ahead and watch.

There is absolutely no way people can be as clueless and absolutely pathetic as these kids are. It's impossible. The amount of trivial misunderstandings in this anime is criminal. Every single conflict could easily be solved with a normal civilized conversation, with questions being asked between two people for clarification of what they meant.

I understand the whole "highschooler logic" thing where everyone gets confused and they don't understand emotions and whatever. But come on. This is going way too far.

Other than the inept communication ability of all the main characters, the anime is alright. Art is good, music is fine, the plot is ... fine too. The communication factor is just too big a problem for me to enjoy it.

*Review may contain minor spoilers*

Man this anime makes me so angry..

Story 1/10
there is the ''loser" who gets asked to join the game club by the most popular girl in school, once upon going to check out the game club, there are a few very talented people and they won alot of prizes etc, So you might think this anime will be very nice about competitive gaming. NO IT IS NOT!! From ep3 till the end gaming made barely an appearance, It was just a pentagon of love and misunderstanding about who loves/cheat on each other.. And it didn't even have a real ending man..

Art 4/10 ...
The art is nothing special only minor point i have to say here is that sometimes the chars look like robots, like when they zoom out on walking scenes etc there arms move like robots, wtf is this sh*t? can't you make them walk like normal?

Sound 4/10
the characters sound like they are screaming all the time with there annoying voices, 3 different ending songs also? why?

Character 1/10
Like i said in the story, they were really good at competitive gaming, but then it turns out all this anime was just about pentagon of love and misunderstandings , no background on gaming, the mc is a total loser who can't do anything, he even sucks a** at games..

Enjoyment 1/10
Man what is this F**king piece of sh*t anime, it made me so angry, you have such a cool 'story' to work with and you just gonna change everything for a boring love/slice of life/school anime full of misunderstandings and endless screaming? cmn..

Overall 2.2/10
This anime is a ''scam'' and just uses the gamer tag to draw in more people, it has nothing to do with gaming except for the occasional gaming talk they have followed up by misunderstandings about them love triangle.
Please do yourself a favor and never watch this.
also please do not make a season 2.

misunderstandings and really awkward, awfully written characters! nice bait and switch with the gaming theme btw. i really appreciate how this turned into yet another terrible, cliche-ridden, flavorless romcom after like 3 episodes and completely threw away the idea of actually being about games at all. it's so ridiculously convoluted and over the top with the constant misunderstandings (that would instantly be solved by any single character actually acting like a human being) that it's actually somewhat memorable/noteworthy. noteworthy for being shitty, but still.

but seriously, why is this show called "Gamers!"? the show has almost nothing to do with games at this point, and as ... a """"gamer"""", i can't say that any of the characters are particularly relatable. probably because they all have a deadly combination of fetal alcohol syndrome + terminal aspergers and i don't. that and i also didn't have 3 obvious girlfriend candidates and a wide social circle in high school. i also actually played videogames, rather than spending every day poorly handling relationship issues, huffing paint, and making unfunny, forced game references. wow, a character got upset and randomly blurted out the konami code! hilarious! this is the pinnacle of comedy! what's next, a character becoming so happy that they can't help but shout "THE CAKE IS A LIE!"?

any time they do actually talk about games, it makes me cringe so hard i feel like i'm going to implode. they're playing the mario kart arcade game and MC gets an item that apparently has a 50% chance of blowing up everyone around him and a 50% chance of blowing himself up. after this is explained to him, the blonde girl says "it's really hard to use on this map!" .....what? why would the map have even the tiniest bearing on how difficult it is to use? ?????????????????? nice show. totally wasn't written by a 40 year old that only plays a mobage once a week.

i feel like people get so caught up in praising this show for the MC not immediately accepting the club invite (so unique!!!!) that they're able pretend like the show didn't immediately turn into a cliche factory afterward. i turned my brain off as soon as i saw bridge scene in episode 2 or 3 where MC is vehemently defending a girl he has talked to for all of 5 minutes with a "YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT ABOUT ME, BUT DON'T TALK BAD ABOUT HER!" and nearly kills the guy with his retard strength. of course, the girl is secretly watching this exchange and falls madly in love with MC as a result. really breaking new ground here.

in conclusion, this show is basically just Netoge no Yome season 2 but with less games and more glue consumption. only watch it if you love misunderstandings and hate anything resembling actual human interaction.

I don't quite understand the people reviewing this. Are you seriously telling me this is relatable to how "gamers" behave?
That must be a joke, because in the first place, The "Gamers!" in the title is only to lure for viewers, nothing more. The plot itself has nothing relatable to video games, this series is all about misunderstandings and a boring/generic romcom plot.

Let's start with the basics, the story is pretty bland, first 3 episodes do have a bit of game references and how the protagonists game and stuff. That's about it, after episode 4 the misunderstandings and the romcom start, but horribly. I understand the ... misunderstandings are the plot itself, but they are making it so they are slow paced and rather boring, at times it feels like filler when it obviously shouldn't be. It just feels like they are dragging it to at least make it up to 12 episodes because we haven't gotten any progress in the story so far, always at the same point, but it is a "slice of life". Althought, i wouldn't consider a slice of life.

My general problem with these misunderstandings is that they are all the same, i expected them to improvise a bit and make them different than each other, but they only spoil on how a one cheats on another when it doesn't really happen, blah, blah... Tell me, where's the creativity in that? In the end, the plot doesn't move on because of this.

Artwise, the animation is nothing special, but i don't really mind it. The designs are really good for the most part. Environments are quite good looking and scenarios are fitting. The colour palette is quite nice and vibrant too.

Sound/Music is top notch if you ask me, but i feel like the BGM does not fit with the scenes at times. VA are quite enjoyable, and really nice choice. The Op might be the only thing from this anime that includes Game references, the ED is enjoyable as well.

This is the other problem i have with most reviews and the series itself. There's nothing from the character development and behaviour that make me think "oh i act like that" "that has happened to me" "oh i hate that feeling", literally nothing. Well, i didn't think anything of that because, the character development is horse poop, like the only character we know a bit is Tendou, no one else had a "let me get to know thing" thingy were we see their daily lives and stuff. We are already at episode 10, and i would've loved to see a bit of storyline for the game club Tendou has, i would've loved to see more from the protagonists as child' and how they got into games (But, obviously that won't be possible, this isn't a series about gamers)

The whole premise was good, but not with an almost clickbait title "Gamers!", the series is just a generic romcom we see all seasons. Nothing new, nothing creative and nothing funny about it. I did wait quite some time to see if things would've gotten to the start point again, but nope, it's just the same over and over again. Edit: I'm dropping it, i'm just tired of this whole plot, it makes no sense. Lowered from 3 to 2 on overall.
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Story: 1
Art: 5
Sound: 5
Character: 1
Enjoyment: 1
Overall: 2

As i'm quite repetitive, i'm sorry for any spelling or any grammar error i may have.

After catching up with the amazing slice of life-romcom, Recovery of an MMO Junkie, I wanted another game-related romance-comedy and I was hoping Gamers would touch my heart in similar ways. The production quality of Gamers was better than I expected. That opening, the references, the music, the voice acting, the art style—it's fantastic! Though Gamers started off a little bit cliched, it still piqued my interest. I thought the pilot was just a basic starting point and the second episode introduced more characters that could get fleshed out later. That was my initial thought until the anime suddenly dropped the ball after the second ... episode to opt for an endless barrage of misunderstandings. Gamers is the kind of anime where people squirm, shake their head side to side a bit, and go "it has its moments but it's not worth your time."

I appreciate how passionate about games they made each character but every time they interacted with one another, it seemed like the writers forgot the nuance previously given to them. They built and nurtured these great relationships in the second episode with tender moments only to make them one-dimensional again in order to pull off their misunderstandings gimmick. The gaming club concept could have worked to their advantage but they didn't stick with it. Misunderstandings killed anything good that could have been salvaged; the writing was very poorly thought out.

They also kept forgetting the girls were interested in video games and continuously used them as boys' sexual attraction, physically and emotionally which was so creepy. If the poor girls didn't completely forget they were into games, they were ashamed of sharing their passion and grew more obsessive about relationships and boys. Because of that, all of the characters kept jumping to their own conclusions about one another. Why write a whirlwind of confusion that would serve to irritate the audience instead of just communicating as friends and partners should? It's just plain bad writing. In addition to that, there were episodes where I was able to catch the ending CG and they were all creepy boob and ass shots of the girls in swimsuits. They're children and the skeevy producers need to rethink their careers.

This entire anime was a landfill of terrible ideas with few moments of fluff sprinkled into it. The writers would constantly forget that the characters enjoyed video games and then beat it into the viewer's head that they're gamers the next minute. I understand the need to create drama—high school can be fraught with it—but every plotline after the second episode became a string of one misunderstanding to the next. Most high school kids don't know how to gauge their emotions and express themselves, but the creators clearly had no idea how to portray adolescence without taking it to new levels of annoying. Pair that with the random creepiness of sexualizing teenage girls and you get this abomination of an anime. By the finale, none of the misunderstandings got sorted out and on the rare occasion that they did, it would soon be replaced by another. Gamers has its moments but it's not worth your time.

This is not a show about games, its a facade. The show is actually a frustratingly bad romance anime that relies heavily on misunderstandings.

The premise of the show is basic, it sets up the main relationship very quickly and has a sub-plot about video games, that is hardly relevant, but I believe has been put into the show just to pander to the otaku demographic.

I don't understand any of the characters in this show, not because they are complex, but because they are so poorly written and their objectives and ambitions in the show are contrived and feel as though they are just ideas ... that have been copied and pasted onto these blank canvas characters.

Seeming romance is the show's main focus, you would think this would be the best part, you'd be wrong to think that. The characters are so bad that I couldn't seem to care about any of their relationships. The characters all seem to be mentally handicapped as they all brake down and misunderstand the actions of other characters and the show has a roundabout way of just avoiding them actually talking about these misunderstandings.

Keita fails as a main character, he contradicts himself so often, most likely because of the poor writing, I feel as though there's a new main character each episode.

Most likely no one looks towards a romance anime, looking for good animation, on this front Gamers! is passable. Art and animation are both standard, I felt like I was hearing the same couple of tracks each episode, which made me feel as though the music in the show was a bit bland.

Hoenstly I watched this show over a year ago but it just came to mind and made me really frustrated. I wanted to explain and "review" this show as to the best of my abilities as I can, which is not very well since I dont remember any of the details about the show and just overall feelings.

So this show's only redeeming quality is the cutie character designs. The only enjoyment I got out of the show is the characters and their expressions.

Now the thing that stands out in my mind and what I HATE about shows like this is an ongoing and escalating amount ... of misunderstandings where is they just ACTED LIKE RATIONAL PEOPLE THIS WHOLE SITUATION COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. That is my sentiment. I understand some people like that senario and good on them but honestly most of the characters are forgettable or down right dislikable and the story is about as dry as I have ever seen. Leaves no lasting impression and is just here to make you frustrated.

From what I remember if you get 3 episodes in and are annoyed, dip while you still can cause it only goes down hill.

I would skip this show and move on to something different.

its was a very good anime i rated it 9/10 i liked the 11 episodes i like the idea of "misunderstanding"
but the last episode makes me angry, it was horrible i have no idea why they waste a good story like that in that horrible episode with an "out of context " scene, in the beginning, i waited for the last episode , i was expecting an open ending with a possibility for season 2 , but to be honest im not excited for another season i think they should stop it right now

i change my rate to 2/10 because of that episode

Just bad, really bad. The start was kinda good and even promising, it had potential for sure. I'd say the first 3 episodes were good, then it went downhill exponentially. Also, don't watch if you got interested by the name, this show has close to nothing to do with gaming, it's more like a tool to try making the conversations/storylines less boring, but even at that it failed. Also, it's more like 11 episodes + 1 OVA, 11th episode is the real ending.

After the 3rd episode, the whole story was about misunderstandings getting out of hand and turning into a crazy love polygon. Honestly that's ... all that's happening. I'm fine with a bit of cliché obliviousness, that's needed here and there to enable the story in a shoujo, but this anime criminally overused it. Is that supposed to be its niche? What a letdown.

The characters had zero depth. Nobody expects crazy characters from a shoujo, I expected nothing and still got let down. And once again, 4/5 of the main characters were "gamers", but it was just a tool and they were "gamers" for the sake of being gamers, because without that their characters would literally be empty, and funnily the 5th character's whole personality is not being a gamer so it's almost comedic how shit the characters were written.

The art was okay but that doesn't matter when it's just a huge dumpsterfire.

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Not only the whole show is just a bunch of stupid misunderstandings piled up, the worst part is that none of these get addressed by the characters. That's just so stupid. All 4 of them thinks they all cheat on each other and it never gets addressed, like wtf? They were basically convinced they were being cheated on and all of them were like "okay, we love each other now, I don't care if they cheated" and moved on. It's only really Chiaki coming to terms with not pursuing Keita and that's the ending.

I went into the last episode thinking all the things would be talked through but no, it was some random idiotic rant by the writers about the gaming industry, like ??? It's almost as if the creators didn't even give a damn about making an anime and they just wanted to make a statement. Should've given away the budget for charity honestly.

Soooooooooooo.....Yup......Gamers is the anime i'll be reviewing today and...It has an exclamation mark at the end, as you can probably see..If you're blind i'm sorry can't help you with that.

And where to start really? Maybe with the story? Yeah let's go with that and see how it plays out..

Ok then, the story is about gam...No it isn't actually. You see my dear friends this anime apart from the first and maybe the last episode where they vaguely talk about games, is a rom-com kinda deal. So the anime starts with Amano Keita-one of the most basic lads in anime-who,one fateful day,meets the Gamer Club President ... Tendo Karen..And SHE is not basic at all..In fact i'd say she is a solid fucking 8.

Now before you call me names you'll regret cause i'm one to bite back and bite hard, i mention the rankings because Karen falls for the beta male and basic as fuck protagonist..What a surprise, right? Well no..Cause Karen as it happens invited Keita to her club and the next thing you know is he rejected her with a killer smile and that was that..She was head over heels for him. And that is actually very realistic cause people always want what they can't have..It becomes an obssession of some sorts which leads to broken marriages and one parent families and kids starting cocaine and robbing marts and raping old ladies in dark alleys..You know, the small things.

Then Karen starts stalking the brave knight while he gets to live a life full of naked and willing otaku gamer girls, who are there to please his needs, no matter how sick they are..I guess sick here means playing a video game other than Candy Crush?!

And from there starts a whatfuckery the world has yet to witness the likes of. All you need to know is that there are couples and every single individual thinks that their other half is cheating on them when in reality they don't..I wonder if the writers actually wanted to make an anime about a swingers club but the studio wanted to make it more family friendly,which is another word for no fun.

Oh and remember that club i mentioned earlier? Well that club and indeed it's 2 other senior members are nowhere to be seen after the first episode, which is a shame really cause one of them was a girl and let me tell you that bird had titties the size of a planet.

Back to the love octagon..Other than the 2 cast members i mentioned earlier there are also some other characters such as Tasuku, a former geeky gamer who somehow turned into the Japanese equivelant of Brad Pitt. Then we have Aguri, Tasuku’s pink headed girlfriend and Chiaki, a lone wolf type of gamer and last but least Chiaki’s younger sister whose name i can't be bothered to remember or search cause i have better things to do, like ending my life probably..All you need to know about her is that she's there to add a little slut spice into the already fucked up mix of gangbangery.

So a fucked up story NOT about gamers apart from the fact that they just identify as such,a cast built just to see how far a swinging club can go and what you end up with is a fun anime to watch..And i really can't put my finger on it, cause it really shouldn't work, but it's a joy to watch. Granted the title and the story on paper are misleading but then again it's still a silly anime and one you can watch after, say, binge watching a heavy duty series.

The characters are by no means boring with their little shenanigans and quirks. Every character has something to show about....Apart from development that is. So if you're on a look for an anime with characters that are interesting and show some actual growth then this is not the one for you. This is meant mostly as a break from these anime, that's the only way it can make sense in my mind.

As far as animation and music go things are pretty much standard. The characters are your standard anime fellows and the backgrounds are nicely done...It's a 2017 lineup anime so production value is very good..Unless you happen to stumble upon an anime with FUCKIN' CGI in it.

Music and VA are there surely..Opening and closing songs are very nicely done to keep in touch with the game theme..Even though the anime is about imaginary cheating.

To sum it up then, Gamers is by no means a great anime and after 10 mins of watching it you'll forget everything about it. But it serves its' purpose if you want something fun and light before you go and watch Tokyo Ghoul for example.

Should you watch it? Yeah, why not..Just for the laughs while having a nice soothing drink it's ideal.

This anime doesn't really decide what it wants to do... It starts out by properly being about gamers as the title suggests, for like 2 episodes. But quickly enough it mutates into some bizzare rom com that can only go with one joke repeatedly: misunderstandings.

Stupid misunderstanding at that, ones that could be quickly and easily resolved by just talking between the characters, and they annoyingly avoid doing that just to make the viewers tear out their hair in frustration. And this drags on and on...

Finally the horrible rom com ends at episode 12 (the last one!!) when they at long last return to talk about ... games, albeit with excessive fanservice added to it which distracts from the actual conversation. And that's where it "ends". There's no story or character development to be seen here.

If you enjoy pulling your own hairs out in frustration as you watch the characters behave stupidly then be my guest and watch this. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and stay away.

For my lazy self to actually bother writing a review, well.. Just that can tell you how bad this anime is.

I don't usually write reviews, and don't get me wrong, I'm not writing this one just so I can trash on this show. However there hasn't been a show in a while that has vexed me to this extent.

Let's begin with the premise. Regardless of what the synopsis sais, this isn't about gamers, this is about teenagers in love. I know, not original, but it's also pretty much what every anime is about these days anyway. There are four characters that all have some kind of relationship with the main character, wether it be friends or crushes. The fact that most of these characters are ... gamers is only established in the first episode, and is quickly set aside for the rest of the series. In addition all of these characters have stereotypical personalities for the single purpose of some comedic gags/skits that often fall flat.

What moves this shows premise along is just a series of misunderstandings and convoluted omissions, that could easily be resolved if any of the characters had any kind of common sense. Even when two or more characters are discussing the very topic that has been misunderstood, they arbitrarily refuse to mention the one fact that could resolve the matter at hand. This is lazy storytelling, it's trite and unimaginative.

If that wasn't bad enough they introduce more characters eventually, with the express purpose of distracting the viewer from the previous issues, by creating more convoluted situations without resolving the previous matters. An analogy that comes to mind would be that this show is like a drawer you used to store cables in, you keep adding more and more cables in there and they keep getting tangled up, so the viewer is just stuck trying to untangle the massive amounts of cables. It's not fun, it's just frustrating and it never ends.

Every other aspect of the show is average at best, the art is mediocre and the music is inoffensive. There is no redeeming factor for this show that pushes it above an average score. It uses the premise that the characters are gamers to bait in gullible viewers, but none of the scenarios or the characters are really relateable if you are a gamer.

My final score is 4/10, because despite every other aspect of the show being average, the story progression itself is just frustrating and unbelievable, and drags the score further down.

Do you like games? Do you want to watch an anime about dedicated gamers who play against each other for some friendly competition? Or perhaps watch an anime about the lives of professional gamers? If you do, then I recommend you turn around and leave this page as soon as possible and never consider watching this show.

This show is for all the gamers out there. Now I know what you're thinking and no, not the ones who actually play games, that'd be stupid. This show is for the people who like gaming references while watching a bad romantic comedy. Don't worry, they don't just ... make references, they tell each other how much they like playing games, so you know they are true gamers! They have transitions with gaming music while showing a girl holding a controller; HELL YEAH, that is how I know she's a gamer. They even use game lingo when they talk to each other, a key feature that only the truest of gamers possess. Now if you’re still interested in watching this for the romcom aspect, I implore you to reconsider and I will explain why.

The only comedy in this show is the laugh you have when you wonder how this show ever came about. You’ll laugh at the poor plot if you already recovered from your cringing. To avoid spoiling (like it matters), all I’ll say is that the “m” in gamers stands for “misunderstandings”; there are a shit ton of them. If you have a functioning brain, you should never come to any of the misunderstandings and conclusions some of these characters reach. I honestly believe the author never attended high school and is just assuming this is how a high school drama is. It honestly hurts me when I try to contemplate how they even came to some of these conclusions.

Lastly, I will say that if you enjoy a good cringe (cause you’ll be cringing a lot, I will warn you that your face may contort with the ungodly amount of cringing), you’ll enjoy this show. While watching I do recommend you turn your brain off to avoid damaging it during the show. Now I got to go play some games to show everyone that I AM A TRUE GAMER! See you later gamer BROS!

Before i start, let me "warm you up" a bit.

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Koe de Oshigoto. Work using voice. The first time you see that title, what are you expecting? Some people who uses their voice for their job? Yes, you got them. The hardship of being a voice actor plus a bit of love story.

ReLIFE. It has Re which i assume is something similar to Re from Rewind or Replay, and it has Life. Most likely the story is about people who try to correct their life for some reason. So is the story really ends up like what the title suggests? Yes, it is. The MC are ... used as an experimental object where their body are reverted to their young days with the help of some drug and forced to join high school again.

Gamers. Is it about a lifestyle of a pro-player in their competitive world? Or is it about some people who spends their days studying game? Or maybe any random story with game as the main story?

NO. None of them. It's about some high school students with their misunderstanding.

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"Misunderstanding? What do you mean?"

Every main character in this series can't communicate as a normal human being and ends up with some random and stupid misunderstanding which can be resolved IF ONLY they talk to each other instead of keeping their thought to themselves.

"What, really? But it can't be that bad, right? There's must be some kind of gaming element in it, right?"

The black-haired boy is just a student who plays games very casually.
The blonde-girl is a part of a gaming club which only explained in the early episode and never came back to the story again.
The black-haired girl is a game developer but how is she developing her games is never explained. At least until episode 5 where i dropped this show.
The brown-haired and his girlfriend are not even a gamer! Well, at least the boy used to be a gamer.

All in all, i'm not sure if these are enough to make a story called Gamers.

"Then where did that Gamers name came from?"

I think because the main characters in this story happen to love playing games. That's it.

"The fuck.."

Yes, indeed. The fuck.

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If you're expecting a show with Gamer or at least Game as the main story, don't watch this one. You'll be disappointed. A lot.

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tl;dr There's no Game or Gamer in this show. Just a forced and retarded romcom. If only this show is called "Misunderstanding", i'll shut my mouth since it fits the story.

To more accurately sum up the entirety of this Anime it should be called "Misunderstandings" rather than "Gamers!" as it has next to nothing to do with gaming at all. The anime started off very promising with actually showing us some gaming to help build up a storyline but after about episode 3 all of that goes away and becomes your standard/substandard rom-com(i love rom-coms but this ones not even funny). It basically delves more into the characters romantic relationships in what eventually becomes a love pentagon (not a triangle but a pentagon) all due to very easily solvable misunderstandings that could be fixed if ... the characters literally just talked to each other. When the misunderstandings between them cause drama for an episode or 2 i was willing to accept it as some light comedy until the misunderstandings literally engulf the entirety of the show lasting for 4+episodes. Essentially this anime plays to the lowest common denominator of anime fans in that it has solely relied on the same 2 misunderstandings between character relationships to play off its comedy for 4+ eps which has gotten really annoying and stale. I say this because after episode 3 all the episodes are exactly the same, same setting,same drama, same comedy bits as if they literally just copy and pasted. Overall i had very high hopes for this anime based off the first few episodes but at this point i feel extremely cheated out of what initially had a lot of potential.Like imagine buying a cute puppy only for it to grow up into a rabies riddled monster that bites off 2 of your fingers even though you gave it all your love (thats this anime). I mean the writers aren't even trying anymore i don't know what else to say this is the only anime i've ever given a 4/10 for and i'm being super generous. (keep in mind the other reviews are only so high because they've only seen 3-4 episodes which is the turning point for when the anime goes very very downhill)

I actually have a high expectations for this anime since I really like games and maybe this anime is the perfect treat for me but then it led me to disappointment.

Okay so when you hear the anime title "Gamers" what probably comes out on your mind? Of course games! This might be an anime where characters are gamers and they would play and explore different kinds of games. Or maybe they are ought to compete with other gamers using their expertise on games. But it's not. This is really just a school romance comedy anime.

The first episode really caught my interest since it ... shows the different types of gamers and what games they are good with. But as I continued the second and then to next episodes, it became bad and painful to watch. My expectations were ruined but I did consider the theme of the anime in which "loving games and enjoying yourself on playing games is the best thing as a gamer" so I could continue. But the hell, the characters just kept on talking and spouting their ideals and perceptions on games and it became a source of conflict which is kind of annoying. But the most annoying part here are the misunderstandings of the characters. Characters are so dense and stupid and small things became a big thing. It was so annoying when you're watching like you wanted to throw the remote control on their faces but you can't because your TV might broke. I kinda dislike the characters here, a plain and dense hero, Mary Sue heroine and annoying supporting characters. There are other supporting characters there who are way better but you won't get to see them often in the series and I'm kinda disappointed with that.

So this anime just typically depicts the lives of teenagers in their adolescent days. Kind of cliche but it's a gamer teen version. I did not enjoy this really so if you're looking for an anime wich really uses games as a plot and not just talk about games, then don't watch this.

BuzzFeed presents: You Won't Believe What Happened To These Gamers!

This show is a giant click bait and I feel cheated having watched it. Spoilers ahead because its common courtesy to expose clickbait.

Gamers! is your stereotypical love-polygon in which misunderstandings, a mysterious childhood friend, and a perfect blonde girl gets you real frustrated because you're tired of watching people blush and apologize for 10 episodes.

There is actually almost nothing to do with video games. In fact, there are probably only 15 minutes of video game screen time in the 12 episode series, and 10 of the 15 are from the OP playing 11 times.

Let's talk about ... the OP. After finding this show and thinking it was about gaming from reading the title (lmao), I watched the OP and saw House of the Dead, PUBG, Smash Bros, Street Fighter, PopnMusic, and some other hype shit. "There's no way this show can't be about games," I had thought after confirming by watching the OP. AYY LMAO.

Then the show baits you in with episode 1, in which the stereotypical antisocial loser MC gets invited to play in his schools esports club with the school idol who happens to be 200 IQ, 10k MMR, Challenger, Grandmaster, Global Elite. It also introduces you to secondary characters who are interesting in their own right by being hyped as some of the best in the world at their respective games.

But unfortunately, the MC declines the offer and instead the show does a 720 and moonwalks backwards into a terribly written love dodecahedron in which video games are never to be heard of again. Suddenly, the esports club and its members cease to exist and the clips of the characters playing CSGO, Guilty Gear, and Persona 4 Arena are like a fever dream you can't really believe existed.

This show baits you hard and takes you on a rollercoaster ride where it feels like the show is trying its hardest to eat up time and make up dumb ways for the love dodrangle to grow even more complicated. You get this feeling of "Its okay, this will end soon- I enjoyed Haruhi S2 even with Endless Eight in it," and you push into each episode only to be let down with the Endless Eleven. The show continually mocks you with the splash screen that plays before and after the commercial breaks- provocative pictures of a game controller and a PS4; surely there will be an actual video game related plot with all this teasing, right?

Then you reach the end of episode 10 and then realize its too late. Episode 11 will inevitably be a continuation of the hokey pokey and the kids will turn themselves around. That's what it's all about. Then that leaves only episode 12 to continue/conclude/start(?) the plot, which of course is way too goddamn short a time to achieve anything significant.

But then the start of episode 12 starts to blow you away because suddenly it has to do with esports again and it brings back one of the beloved cool kids and the- nope, never mind. It's like after doing the 720 they decided to do another revolution and make it a 1080 to break the world record and redeem themselves, but right as they landed they ate shit and slid down a mountain. Episode 12 is a disaster in its own right. The main focus of episode 12 is to convince the main characters, and essentially the viewer, that gaming is a waste of time and money. Can you believe this shit. Even if what they say is true, keep in mind you have been praying to every deity you can think of that this show will start talking about video games and once they actually do, they tell you that your hobby sucks. The worst part is that the characters are actually thoroughly convinced until the last 2 minutes of the episode/season/plot when they realize that actually its not a waste of time and money because it just isn't.

However, I am not just giving this a poor review because I dislike romcoms or love-polygons, or anything like that. I am giving this a poor review because it really truly sucks.

There is no story or deeper exposition that this show ever starts or concludes, probably because they trashed all the world building done in episode 1. It seriously feels like a waste and almost makes you wonder why they even bothered building anything up to begin with.

The designs are so basic and characters look like background characters from other high school animes- you almost wonder if this show is a gaiden for the unnamed characters from an actually decent high school series. Another big gripe is one of the characters is literally named Ugly and her hair is pink with brown roots, making it look like someone dropped a deuce on her head.

Animation quality varies wildly, and sometimes it seems like characters are the wrong size, their bodies are not in the right plane of existence with the backgrounds, and many times you will a shift in drawing/animation styles as if each scene was made by a completely different company. The last bit may or may not be a problem because the end of episode 11 actually seemed very reminiscent of ~2010 gainax which was neato.

The sound is so forgettable I don't even remember if there's background music at all. The only thing I can remember is a short jingle that plays during the commercial splash screens.

In all honesty, if you came to this show hoping for some semblance of a video game anime, just watch the OP, episode 1, and episode 12. You will miss absolutely nothing skipping the middle 10 episodes.